16 Blessings

 

Happy New Year to you and your family…. 🙏

 Just thought of getting back to my routine of blogging after some year end rough roller coaster ride. It is not that I am out of it…. As you know ‘When going gets tough, the tough gets going’ - yes settling down in the ‘new norm’ 😎

Even though I was NOT blogging, made it a point to think and note down some topics, which I can blog in 2021.

For the New Year 2021, you must have received a lot of wishes and greeting from friends and family. At the same time, blessings from elders too. In Tamil culture, the elders say ‘Let the God shower on you all the 16 blessings, needed for you’  

What are these 16 blessings? Let us drill down. 

A Tamil devotional poet Abhirami Bhattar of the 18^th century, in his Abhirami Anthadhi prays to the goddess Abhirami for the below 16 blessings

1)Good and Proper Education	2) Long life
3)Good Friends	4)Inexhaustible Prosperity
5)Youthfulness	6)Disease free (healthy) body
7)Calm mind (tranquility)	8)Affectionate Spouse
9)Children with good character	10)Name and Fame
11)Truthfulness	12)Philanthropy
13)Theft free Wealth	14)Good government
15)Worry free life	16) Association with your great devotees

 Even in 2021 under this pandemic situation, this suffices.  What do you say? Can you think of any other blessing missed by this great poet?  If yes pls mention it in the comment.

For the benefit of my Tamil followers.

கலையாத கல்வியும் குறையாத வயதும் ஓர்
கபடு வாராத நட்பும்
கன்றாத வளமையும் குன்றாத இளமையும்
கழுபிணியிலாத உடலும்
சலியாத மனமும் அன்பகலாத மனைவியும்
தவறாத சந்தானமும்
தாழாத கீர்த்தியும் மாறாத வார்த்தையும்
தடைகள் வாராத கொடையும்
தொலையாத நிதியமும் கோணாத கோலுமொரு
துன்பமில்லாத வாழ்வும்
துய்யநின் பாதத்தில் அன்பும் உதவிப் பெரிய
தொண்டரொடு கூட்டு கண்டாய்

Stay tuned in, by counting your blessings…..👍